Word: tito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their attachment to Kosovo but secretly believed a last-minute deal would be made to ward off NATO bombs. Not until Thursday night did Serbian state television even begin to hint that the threat of air strikes was growing real. And somewhere, burrowed into the rooms of the old Tito residence he rarely leaves, Milosevic was mulling over his difficult choices...
Also, Prema Vora, a director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, spoke about South Asian domestic violence; and Tito Sinha, an attorney, talked about South Asian hate crimes...
...Panazz players back to light up Symphony Hall again this year. They performed last March for the first time in the Boston area and were back before Thanksgiving with more steel drum action. Opening the concert was Ken "Professor" Philmore, who has performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente and Cassandra Wilson in the past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning his professional career at fifteen with...
Meetings took place atop a hill in Zagreb, in a room Tito, the former-Yugoslavia's communist-era leader, used as a living room more than 40 years...
...1940s some U.S. officials suspected that Ho Chi Minh was not just another Soviet stooge but a Vietnamese nationalist suspicious of his huge Chinese neighbor--an "Asian Tito." Had the pro-Ho factions in the CIA and State Department persuaded Eisenhower to compel South Vietnam to hold a reunification referendum in 1956--despite rampant McCarthyism in the U.S.--Ho would surely have won. While Ike would have taken some political heat, a newly reunited Vietnam backed by American power would have quickly asserted its independence from Beijing. With no war to fight in Southeast Asia, Lyndon Johnson would have concentrated...